Access to sites and records

The commission, director, and their representatives shall have access to all records wherever located. All owners, operators, drilling contractors, drillers, service companies, or other persons engaged in drilling, completing, producing, operation, or servicing oil and gas wells, pipelines, injection wells, stratigraphic test wells, subsurface observation wells, or treating plants shall permit the commission, director, and their representatives to come upon any lease, property, pipeline right-of-way, well, or drilling rig operated or controlled by them, complying with state safety rules, and to inspect the records and operation, and to have access at all times to any and all records. If requested, copies of such records must be filed with the commission. The confidentiality of any data submitted which is confidential pursuant to subdivision f of subsection 1 of North Dakota Century Code section 38-08-04 and section 43-02-03-31 must be maintained.